The government's foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300, according to reports published in Wired, Reuters, The New York Times and NPR.

The State Department declined to comment. Neither USAID nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.

Essential personnel was to be notified by 3 p.m. EST Thursday, per a message posted

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